St Guy

Rev dear Rev: Does your Church have any plans to canonise the legendary Guy Fawkes as a St Guy of Belgium, since after all he has been rehabilitated in the new TV Series Gunpowder not as an External Traitor and Aggravating Terrorist but as an Insulate style defender of human rights of a Human Rights Act kind before an HRA 98 existed in our primitive state? Any signs of progress on this subject?

Historia mutavit - History changes, and the opinions of historians change too, and with the benefit of hindsight, many historians more and more believe that the Guys of the world should be handled differently nowadays. Spiritually, he was part of a larger protest movement about human rights - he was an Insulator of his time. 

An article appeared in the medical journal The Lancet not long ago recording that 27% of the population had now attained immunity from a deadly disease. For some time since the 9/11 business, terror of a religious kind has been deemed a mental disease, and a foreign disease at that, synonymous with a mental state of extreme illness and extreme violence in which the subject believes they are hearing voices instructing them to do harm to others and especially westerners. There are a number of features of this period of church history in our own time which we can record here. Pol Pot was a dictator in Cambodia in the 1970s. The renewal of the churches across the board and especially in Rome through the fogs and mists of ecumenism in this period 1960 to 2013 has occurred while something of a battle has been raging between what we might call the Pol Pot reformers of the illiberal left, though these do not defend the religious rights in the human rights charters like they should, and pitted against them the Angloid reformers and renewers of the Daytona 500 kind, nothing to do with America, but the hip-hop name suggests that these people, the British Christians all across the board, have lived under persecution for 500 years. Hence the epithet. The Pol Pots reform through cancellation and erasure, bringing the pressures of state favour to bear on the Christians all over again, while the Angloids stand back from rooting for civil governments, and also from rooting for authorities generally while they record somewhat bitterly that it was ever thus. The civil governments of Spain and Britain conducted their secret accords and landed the card-carrying loyal faithful in Britain right in it each time. In the Pol Pot system of reform, there is a year zero before which there is nothing good that can be said about the past and about church history especially, for they are historical dictators, while the Angloids respect history and preserve its ancient witness as a source of rights for them and for all religions caught by a vicious state mechanism. Pol Pot liturgical wallahs often remove much of the decoration and furnishing of churches in their attempt to purify the churches of their histories and their rights consciousness from the past. Daytona 500 British Christians however look to the past as a storehouse out of which to bring things both old and new, following the example of the first martyr for religious rights, the God-man Jesus Christ.  

But to answer the question more directly - Speaking with an officer of the Saintly Congregation at the office in London, No, it appears there is little plan to canonise St Guy as a public saint of the Church quite yet, but Yes, point taken and hermeneutic acknowledged, that Guy more and more has been rehabilitated in this age of Insulate GB protest movements and protest saints of the woke kind like those of BLM and ILM, since in the TV Series Gunpowder his cause is presented as a just cause in which the human and civil and religious rights of a minority did actually need to be respected, after months and months of financial penalty and betrayal and execution of women and boy seminarians and boy altar servers in the most cruel and pitiless kind, and that he only turned to terrorism because he was literally forced to, after much provocation of a terrible and mean kind from the evil very fascist king of the time, James VI of a then SNP style fascista Scotland. A theologian from the Jesuit order did ask theologians in the BTA in Britain to try in their right minds to cultivate and defend and respect this kind of protest movement, as most ordinary souls will turn to terrorism if their access to justice is consistently and persistently foiled and frustrated by powers beyond the help of any ordinary mortal man - it is a natural human emotion to seek redress against long-standing evil injustice. So St Guy can be venerated as a servant of the good God who looks after his people, whatever kings and evil monarchs stipulate in their comfort-laden wills. The flocks of Brave Christian Britain should not be thrown under the buses one more time in the moderne secular world just because a secular state does not understand religion or religious rights. The British Christians consequently do not enjoy the tendency of authorities to throw believers under the buses - and they have soldiered on bravely, slightly more conservative than other conferences and other nations since they know the cost of suffering for the little privileges of the good cause, and they have done so bravely oh so bravely for the last 500 years, often without the slightest help from priggish Roman officials always compromising with authorities of a secular and civil kind. St Guy, yes, it might happen one day. Certainly beyond the confines of the anomalous borders, St Guy is already regarded as a Saint, especially in Belgium. It is merely a matter of time before the sluggish authorities in Belgium take note of this evolutionary fact. Guy was the Galileo of his time. We might grasp this nettle one day, but for now it is enough to allow the film and cinema worlds to do the grappling for the GB Christians under the buses, early Christians all.